Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Search Personalization

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 174,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions connect, explore, and interact with information. You will work on a critical Google project with opportunities to switch teams as our fast-paced business grows.

In Google Search, we reimagine how information is found. You will tackle complex engineering challenges to expand infrastructure while maintaining a universal, useful experience for people worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of software development experience in C++, Java, or Python.
• 3 years developing search quality algorithms, ranking systems, or information retrieval models.
• 3 years building, scaling, and deploying personalization algorithms or recommendation systems in production.
• 3 years testing/maintaining/launching software, plus 1 year of design/architecture.
• 1 year of GenAI techniques (LLMs, multi-modal) or related concepts.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap driving priority Search Personalization Quality components across AI Mode and apply them in AI Overviews.
• Solve personalization triggering problems by understanding the intersection of query intent, user context, and real-world context to expand Personal Intelligence across eligible search queries.
• Improve personalization response quality by designing and validating solutions for accurate personalization signals application via context engineering and ranking.
• Work with the personalization evaluation team and AI Experience (AIX) quality team to accelerate personalization wins and benefit horizontal AIX quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers and Analysts, and across organizations (Infrastructure, Evaluation, Trust, Search Platforms, and Verticals) to understand technical limitations and design solutions that drive personalization expansion and response quality.

Skills

C++/Java/Python development

IR algorithms

Personalization systems

Software testing & architecture

GenAI techniques

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's/PhD in CS or related

Tools

Kotlin

Search infrastructure

Job description

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions connect, explore, and interact with information. You will work on a critical Google project with opportunities to switch teams as our fast-paced business grows.

In Google Search, we reimagine how information is found. You will tackle complex engineering challenges to expand infrastructure while maintaining a universal, useful experience for people worldwide.